{"id":8184,"date":"2016-04-22T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2016-04-22T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T06:10:06","slug":"residents-small-trees-planted-in-evergreen-woods-a-public-relations-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/04\/residents-small-trees-planted-in-evergreen-woods-a-public-relations-ploy\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents: Small Trees Planted in Evergreen Woods A ‘Public Relations Ploy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Small trees planted at the Evergreen Woods condominium complex near the Garden State Parkway. (Photo: Michele Spector)<\/p><\/div>\n

The rift between residents of the Evergreen Woods condominium complex in Brick and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority grew bigger this week, with residents of the community \u2013 which backs up the ever-expanding Garden State Parkway \u2013 saying trees that were planted by a state contractor are not up to the standards they were promised.<\/p>\n

The trees were far from what residents had requested in the first place \u2013 a sound wall \u2013 that they say would provide protection from endless traffic noise, increased fumes and the threat of a car slipping off the roadway and plowing into their homes. All three of those threats have grown since the Parkway was expanded with larger shoulder, with state crews having removed thousands of trees, which provided a layer of protection, in the process.<\/p>\n

The Turnpike Authority built a sound wall on the opposite side of the highway, where the Cherrywood Farm community backs up to the Parkway. For Evergreen Woods residents, the state promised to plant a number of 7-foot trees after years of fighting and residents attending Turnpike Authority meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a public relations ploy,\u201d a visibly angry Stephen Brill, a Evergreen Woods resident, told the township council this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re laughing at Brick residents and their representatives,\u201d resident John Sluka said. \u201cThey needed a 14 foot barrier, but instead they\u2019re planting a line of three to four-foot trees. Every council member should be calling the governor\u2019s office, the lieutenant governor\u2019s office and the newspapers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor John Ducey, who has previously advocated for residents of the community, said he would contact the state to rectify the tree issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at these trees and they are three feet at best. That is totally unacceptable,\u201d said Ducey. \u201cWhat they\u2019re planting out there is definitely not up to what they promised to residents, so we\u2019re on top of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The rift between residents of the Evergreen Woods condominium complex in Brick and the New Jersey Turnpike Authority grew bigger this week, with residents of the community \u2013 which backs up the ever-expanding Garden State Parkway \u2013 saying trees that were planted by a state contractor are not up to the standards they were promised. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,248,170,249,2098],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-evergreen-woods","tag-garden-state-parkway","tag-new-jersey-turnpike-authority","tag-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-280","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}